Valve-reseating machine



(No Model.)

W. BRUNER.

VALVE RBSBATING MACHINE. No. 525.441.v Patented Sept. 4, 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALLACE BRUNER, OF BUOKLAND, OHIO.

VALVE-RESEATING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.1525,441, dated September 4, 1894.

Application filed December 20, 1 893. Serial No. 494,205. (No model.)

To LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known thatl, WALLACE BRUNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buckland,in the county of Auglaize and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Valve- Reseating Machine, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to valve reseating machines; and it has for its object to provide a machine of this character which involves simple and efficient means for properly truing up valves and their seats and is particularly adapted for use in grinding ball valves and seats which are employed in ordinary oil well pumps.

To this end, the invention primarily contemplates improved means whereby ball valves and valve seats may be properly ground down to prevent leakage, and to effect this grinding or truing by means of a grinding frictional contact between the ball and its seat and the seat and the ball, thereby utilizing the friction between the parts to be ground for the purpose of accomplishing the work to be' done thereon.

With these and other objects in view which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists 1n the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated and claimed.

In the drawings :-Figure 1 is a perspective,

view of a valve reseating machine showinga ball valve supported in position with its valve seat arranged thereover, as held by the hand in regrinding the contacting surfaces. Fig. 2 is a similar View of the machine with the seat cap in position, showing the ball valve placed on top of the valve seat as held by the hand. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of the construction shown in Fig. l. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail sectionalview including the upper end of the vertical m'otion shaft. Fig. 5 is a detail in perspective showing the ordinary forms of ball valves and the valve seat rings employed in connection with the machine.

Referring to the accompanying dr'awings, A represents the base bearing block adapted to be arranged in any suitable position con venient for the operation of the herein described machine, and is constructed of any lsuitable metal capable of withstanding the wear placed upon the same, and said bearing l The extreme upper end of the vertical mo-v f,

tion-shaft D, is providedwith a cup-socket G, having an inwardly beveled upper edge H, which is adapted to snugly receive a ball valve X, of the ordinary spherical construction, and belonging to that class of valves used in oil, and other lift pumps. VThe cupsocket G, at the upper end of the vertical motion-shaft, is sufficiently deep to keep the lowest point of the ball valve out of contact with the bottom thereof, and thereby hold t the ball valve to a bearing on the upper inwardly beveled edge of the socket, but such valve is given a sufficient purchase or bearing in the beveled cup-socket so that the rapid motion of the shaft D, will be imparted f to the ball valve, and this motion is maintained at about fifteen hundred revolutions to the minute. It will be seen that the upper beveled edge of the cup-socket corresponds in l shape to the valve seat Y, in conjunction with which the ball valve is used, and said valve seat Y, is simply an ordinary ring having an inwardly beveled seat edge Z, onto which the ball valve is adapted to Work in the pump, and

which becomes unevenv and untrue very quickly especially whenused in connection with oil pumps, where the duid lifted is very gritty and sandy. Now with the ball valve in position to be carried by the upper end of the motion-shaft, the valve seat is taken in one hand and placed on top of the revolving ball, and while the parts of the machine are in operation the valve seat is rocked back and forth in universal frictional contact with the ball so that the friction of its beveled edge with the ball, will cause a regrinding of the contacting surfaces and this regrinding is IOO insured andfacilitated by means of introducing emery dust dampened with oil inside of the valve seat ring, after placing the same in position on the ball, and while in opera.- tion this abrasive-lubricant will feed itself between the seat and the ball, causing the parts to be reground or cut by their own friction. It will of course be understood that any other suitable abrasive lubricant might be substituted for the emery and the oil.

After sufficiently regrinding the ball valve by means of rocking the" valve seat thereover, such ball valve is removed,.and a detachable seat cap I, is removably tted onto the upper end of the vertical motion shaft.

The seat c'ap I, is provided with a lowerV recessed end J, which tits thevupper end-of the motion-shaft' and is held thereto by means of aset-screw j, or other similarfastening, and

the upper end of saidv seat-cap is; boredv tov forma seat-socket Kr The seatsocketK, is made in diierent'sizes to'hold different sizes ofvalve seats, while the lower recessed end of the cap is always of aluniforrm size to tit A n zcombination of a-vertical'motion-shaft, sind an attachment Orseatcap adapted to betit'- 7o the shaft D. The seat-socket K, atfthe upper end ofthe-cap Lis-adapted to removably receive the vvalve-seat Y, which is preferably held therein bymeans of aset screw k, impinging at one side thereof, whereby motion will be given to thevalve seat as the motionshaftrotate's; The beveled seatedge` of the valve-'seat isdisp'osed upwardly, andfis'adapt'- edtore'ceive the ball valve Y, which isheld with 'one hand, While the machine is in operation', and turned or rocked on top ofthe valve seat inY asimilar manner to the reverse opera-tion previously described, whereby the frctionalcontact between the two 'parts'will cause'la proper regrinding or truingof their contacting surfaces.

While in the first-operation' described,- in whichl thevalves'eat is rocked-overthe ball, it'will beV seen that-'the'b'all may be'constantlyT shifted so that the valve seat maybe rocked or turned in contact with all portions of the 45 ball to insure a complete regrind-ing of the ball and seat, and while the seat-cap attachment vmay supplement this operation, such attachment is particularly intended to pro` vide meansY for grinding diierent sizesof 5o valve seatsV and ball-valves, inasmuch as the socket K, is of a size corresponding to the seat fitting" therein.

Changes in the form, proportion and the minor details of construction may be resorted 55 to without departing from the principle or sacrificing. any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed, and desired tobesec'ured by Let- 6o upper-'enamel supporting means wsuppm est a ball valve and its seat in loose' univ'eisal frictional contact, substantially as'set forth. 2f. In a'fmachine of theclassdescribemthe ted to the upper'e'nd o'f' themoton' shaft sind to removably hold in position a' valve seat,

substantially as set forth.V Y

3. In a machine of the class described, the

combination' of aver'tical motiomsha'ft, dse' 15 arateattachment or seat'cap'fasteredtot e npper end of said motion shaft a'n'd havin a seatlsocket in its upper end, and meahs of removably securing a valve seatin saidset socket; Y substantially' as s'eftforth; I

In testimony thatI claim thefo'regoing ai my own I: have-hereto axed'mysgh'turen the presence of two witnesses.

WALLACE BRUNER.

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